Futex bug : The linux futex_wait call has been broken for about a year (in upstream since 3.14, around Jan 2014), and has just recently been fixed (in upstream 3.18, around October 2014). More importantly this breakage seems to have been back ported into major distros (e.g. into RHEL 6.6 and its cousins, released in October 2014), and the fix for it has only recently been back ported (e.g. RHEL 6.6.z and cousins have the fix).

There is No Now : explore the problem with simultaneity in distributed systems

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Provide advisory services via Blopeur Ltd.Use to work / do research for SAP and more specifically HANA enterprise Cloud. Also use to lead the (now retired by SAP) Open Source project: Hecatonchire - it aims to bring together the flexibility of virtualization, cloud and high
performance computing in order to break free of current cloud
limitations. Hecatonchire deliver a
framework of tools aiming to provide memory, I/O and CPU resource aggregation
capabilities to x86/Linux native application.